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Political content. Cutting through the distraction. Focusing on what's broken: the system, the media and the economy as well as on the climate crisis.
Hilary Smith Socialist ex Labour party member Profile picture 1 subscribed
May 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
That old myth about the royals and tourism has done the rounds like crazy. It never gets fact checked, so here some data
1/ UK sites: No royal site, free or paid is a top 10 tourist attraction by visitor numbers ImageImage 2/ Countries: 3 of the top 10 most popular countries for tourists are monarchies. Not one sensible person is saying people are going to Spain and Thailand to see the royal palaces and not going for the beaches (nowhere near the royal palaces). Same applies here (see 1). Image
Apr 20, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Labour have been consistently been making two claims about their NHS plans:
1) They will scrap the non dom tax
2) They will use it to fund the biggest expansion of the NHS workforce
As the media can’t be bothered to, I’ve fact checked this on this thread
1/13 Image 1) Labour ISN’T scrapping the non dom tax loophole it’s replacing it with a new tax break because they want “to attract top international talent”. In no understanding of the English language are “scrapping” and “replacing” the same thing.
Source theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/… Image
Mar 14, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
1/ For the #Budget you'll hear both Tories and Labour as well the media say things like "we haven't got the money". The truth is we do have money, lots of it. The Tories alone have burnt through hundreds of billions, pure waste. This thread lists some of the worst wastes. 2/ £50 billion wasted on Cameron's NHS reforms. They found the money for that but not for fair pay rises for NHS staff.
Details: everydoctor.org.uk/blog/nhs-refor…
Jan 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ I'm pulling my hair out with the crap, disingenuous media reporting of the #NHSCrisis. I've seen the BBC, Sky and ITV all cite the Tories plan to give health and social care £14.1bn more over 2 years with NO CONTEXT. So let me do it:
Thread 2/ Total spend on health and social care is c£180 bn a year.
With inflation at c10%, to stay level they would need an extra c£18 bn a year.
The Tories plan is c.£7 bn a year, ie £11 bn, c60% less than is needed to stay level.
So in practice this extra money is a real terms cut.
Jan 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Thread: The next big Tory lie - Inflation
Sunak says “he’ll halve inflation this year” at his press conference.
No reporter asks him how exactly is it that he can control inflation and if he can why hasn’t he done it sooner? 2/ Inflation will fall ALL around the world this year. It’s a relative measure between two points in time. Prices spiked up last year because of the hike in energy prices especially after the Ukraine invasion. Unless there is another spike like that, inflation WILL go down.
Jan 3, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
1/ The massive #NHSCrisis we're now suffering is only a surprise to the Tories and the mainstream media. The warnings of this crisis were there in JULY, well before flu and the winter COVID surge. They were ignored then as they coincided with the Johnson meltdown.
Thread 1/12 2/ a) Source for the July warning: rcem.ac.uk/two-thirds-ae-…
b) A more detailed report on the July warning: lowdownnhs.info/news/warnings-…
Dec 31, 2022 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
1/ The #NHSCrisis is at a dangerous peak. Yet there's more on the TV news about hospitals in China than here. So, I pulled together some stories on it from just the last few days to show just how bad things are. More people need to know this, we can't rely on the TV media.
🧵 Image 2/ Critical incidents declared in a number of health authorities with all staff being called in.
Sep 12, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Thread 🧵 - Now is the time to stand up, yes, that includes you!

We need to stand up right now to what's going on in this country. I didn't get to this recommendation strictly by political analysis. I get to it by life experience. If you don't stand up for yourself against bullies, they'll keep coming back and it'll be worse each time they do. Right now we, the overwhelming majority in this country, are being taken for granted by a powerful but tiny clique at the top.
Sep 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I know many people laugh off the idea that this country is heading towards fascism. Look at this thread, watch the clip. Then explain to me how the police approaching a man for holding up a blank piece of paper isn’t a scary example of an authoritarian state..
1/ongoing 🧵 Example (2) Arrested for shouting “dirty old man” at Prince Andrew.
Sep 12, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Bored of non stop royal tv? If you're streamlining, I've put my choices for sci-fi shows here. I've left out big franchises like the Star Wars spin offs and the Star Trek reboots (which are good). I've picked the stand outs which don't get as much attention. 1/ War of the Worlds (2019+) - Disney+
Not just for sci-fi fans, I think anyone will like this. Acting, script, story line, the look all good and compulsive viewing. Many "what would I do?" dilemmas. Way better than the earlier Cruise and BBC reboots.
Aug 15, 2022 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
1/ #PrivatisationFail - Water Industry
The bare fact about each water company. All of it shocking. The differences between the private companies in England vs the public ones in devolved nations on CEO pay is stark.

Each frame of this clip follows on this thread as a pic. 2/ #PrivatisationFail - Water Industry

Thames Water
Aug 15, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
We are suffering from privatised energy, water, rail and bus services. Not only are they adding to the #CostofLivingCrisis but they've given us sub standard infrastructure that will buckle under the #ClimateCrisis. Yet there is NO discussion of the failure of privatisation.
🧵1/7 2/ Privatisation has gone further in the UK than any other rich developed country, including the US. We are paying the price for it everyday and that price will grow as the #ClimateCrisis worsens. Both mainstream politics and media simply refuse to even discuss it.
Jul 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ The Tory leadership race - what’s likely?
Ignore current resignations. With the exception of Javid and Sunak, the big players in the Cabinet won’t act before the 1922 Committee. That could be a delegation going to Johnson or a successful rule change. Game on after that.
🧵 1/7 2/ The Tory leadership will be come down to two types of candidate: Continuity Johnson, ie carry on as is, (Patel, Raab, Truss) just do what he was doing without illegal parties, free passes for sex cases and less lying.
or
Jul 5, 2022 • 51 tweets • 23 min read
Sajid Javid resigns from the Cabinet. Game on!
Come on Tories, get Johnson gone. 2/ Paragraph 5 is the killer in Sajid Javid’s resignation letter
Jun 20, 2022 • 43 tweets • 10 min read
Thread - Labour MPs who will be supporting #RMT strikers and picket lines.
Labour MPs who don't support this and the other strike actions for fair pay should have their union sponsorships cancelled immediately.
(NB thread is no particular order) 1) Jon Trickett
May 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It’s truly amazing and unique that the Tories have been more generous than Labour. Sunak’s package for the #CostOfLivingCrisis is bigger and wider than Labour’s proposal. For every Labour leader in my memory, Foot, Kinnock, Smith, Blair, Brown, Miliband and Corbyn
1/6 2/ the opposite was true. Labour’s financial proposals have been fairer, wider and more generous than Tory proposals. For the first time under Starmer, Labour is behind the Tories on this. For the first time, Labour cannot legitimately say “you haven’t done enough,
May 18, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
In dealing with the highest level of inflation since 1982, many comments on unions being stronger to protect their members before the Tories took their rights away. There were other big differences (see Thread). Any analysis of the current crisis has to include all of these. 1/ Housing: most renters were in council homes (effectively rent control). Right to buy introduced by the Tories effectively destroyed council housing and boosted the private rental sector. There is no control on rents.
Source: fullfact.org/economy/social…
Feb 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In 2017, abusive comments made by a Labour MP 13 years BEFORE he became an MP in 17 were a continuous rolling story on the TV news channels as he was seen a "Corbyn supporter". Labour suspended him quickly. Compare that to the media and Labour NON reaction to the Coyle's racism. 2/ Details on the O'Mara abusive social media posts and the reaction to them
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Jan 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Top tip for Labour folk: people in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks

A little thread on Labour’s tolerance of Islamophobes since Starmer became leader

1) Remember that report on #Islamophobia in Labour? 2) Donations from an islamophobe
Oct 27, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
1/ The mainstream media are letting the Tories off with their #Budget21 coverage. Their accepting the Tory narrative and not doing adequate fact checking.
So, this is an ongoing Thread with fact checking on the Budget
(items in no particular order) 2/ The outlook isn’t “optimistic” the way Sunak claims - The UK is forecast to suffer the worst economic damage from Covid-19 of any G7 country.
Oct 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
1/ With the #COP26 conference, there'll be many good words and statements of intent from political leaders on the #ClimateCrisis The thing is there's what they do and what they say.
This is an ongoing Thread logging the hypocrisy of the UK leaders. Establishment media won't be! 2/ Prince Charles - standing in for the Queen, will be a centre of attention. His own *conservation* charity accepted money from the world's biggest oil company, the Saudi company, Aramco.